Bottesini: Introduction & Gavotte for double bass and guitar (Perez)

About the Composition

Giovanni Bottesini’s Introduzione e Gavotte (often just called Introduction & Gavotte) is one of the foundational solo works for the double bass. Composed by the 19th-century Italian virtuoso—often dubbed the "Paganini of the Double Bass"—it brilliantly combines a dramatic opening with a playful dance expertly arranged for double bass and guitar by Luis G. Perez.

This edition is in solo tuning.

About the Arranger

Luis Guillermo Pérez was born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela in 1954. He graduated as a classical guitarist from the “Vicente Emilio Sojo” Conservatory in 1980 and began his double bass studies with Volmar Laubach in 1978, and later with Joel Novoa at the “Simón Bolívar” Conservatory in Caracas, in 1984.

He has been Principal Bass with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Lara, from 1989 until the present day, and has participated as a guest double bassist with the Orquesta Simón Bolivar in their tour in France “Festival Radio France” in 1986. He was the Assistant Principal Bass with the Orquesta de los X Juegos Panamericanos (Indianapolis, 1987), in the 50th anniversary of the Orquesta Sinfónica (1992), with the Bach Academy from Stuttgart conducted by Helmuth Rilling (1994), and in the premiere of the piece “A flowering tree” by John Adams in Vienna (2006).

Luis has worked as professor of double bass in Venezuela and in other Latin American countries, and now teaches at the Universidad Centro Occidental Lisandro Alvarado UCLA and in the “Vicente Emilio Sojo” Conservatory.